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Date: 2001-09-03 04:21:25
Correspondent: Igor Vanin
Source: VOICENWS, Janeira St. Clare
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The article below details a trend worldwide of governments passing laws mandating preference be given to free/open source software.
This could have very interesting implications for members of the OS/2 community.
Governments push open-source software
By Paul Festa
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
August 29, 2001, 4:00 a.m. PT
Governments around the world have found a new rallying cry -- "Software
libre!" -- and Microsoft is working overtime to quell it.
A recent global wave of legislation is compelling government agencies, and
in some cases government-owned companies, to use open-source or free
software unless proprietary software is the only feasible option.
Full story: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6996393.html?tag=tp_pr
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